The paper industry in Finland — and in Russia 1885–1913

Abstract

The quantitative importance of the Russian market for the Finnish pulp and paper industry can be demonstrated in a table showing the share of exports of mechanical pulp, chemical pulp and paper from Finland to the Russian Empire before the First World War. Finnish exports of pulp and paper can be studied from 1881; before that date few miIls existed. so that statistics are of little significance. Changes in the Russian customs duties between 1881 and 1913 divide the period into three phases. Finnish exports of pulp and paper into Russia remained free of duty until the autumn of 1885, when a customs duty came into effect which was retained more than a decade.¹ In 1897 and 1900 duties were increased, thus marking the beginning of the third phase, as shown in table I.

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Jorma Ahvenainen

Jorma Ahvenainen, born 1930, Ph.D. (Helsinki) 1963, Associate Professor of Economic History at the University of Jyväskylä.